Hi, On 2006-05-29, at 09:35 , Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote:
I just got an answer form the Dutch company Open Office stating that it is correct, that the company owns the trademark "Open Office" in Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luzembourg). This probably means the we cannot use the name "OpenOffice" in these countries since that name is too similar with "Open Office" - unless, of course, we can somehow make an agreement with the company.
This is not news.
Anyway, whatever the real reason was for the name, I suggest that we change the explanation in the FAQ. Right now, the FAQ could easily be understood like: "We would really have called the product OpenOffice, but we realized that we couldn't, so unfortunately we had to choose another name, and we had to hurry and couldn't make up something better than this". This gives, of course, a very unprofessional impression. Instead we should state that the name was deliberately chosen for very intelligent and sophisticated reasons ;-)
Which faq are you referring to? The faq that I know about state it quite clearly and simply and have for a very long time:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#4 Louis
Finn
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